After taking six years to follow-up his cult debut album, We Have Sound, with 2011's disappointing Leisure Seizure, you'd be forgiven for thinking there might be another half a decade wait before Tom Vek re-emerges. Or maybe forgiven for not really thinking about it at all, given that both albums missed the UK top 75. Yet almost exactly two years after that second album, he's back under the moniker Nothankyou, creating brilliantly fidgety electropop like the excellent single Know Yourself – premiered here - alongside former Chairlift collaborator and current member of Dirty Projectors, Olga Bell (the pair first "met" on Myspace years ago during what Vek calls "a window of about a week when I was speaking to people over social media" before deciding to collaborate after bumping into each other at a party in Brazil). Given that there's always been a whiff of Beck about Vek's sound, it's not exactly surprising when Know Yourself's percussive rattle and elastic bassline – recalling something off Beck's Guero album – kicks in, but the song is transformed into something bigger and murkier by Bell's deliberate delivery, her voice savouring lyrics such as "you're loveless, but you love it" as the mechanical mesh of electronics and spiky guitar lines grind beneath her.

Know Yourself/Oyster is relased on 5 August via Moshi Moshi.

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